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In her book "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement“, that Meta & Co. are engaging in ”human fracking" by stealing our attention and turning it into profit. In an interview with the taz, she states:

While you’re scrolling on your phone, Meta, Google, and Co. measure how long you look at one corner or another of your screen. They track what interests you. And the longer you’re on your device, the more data they can collect from you—to sell to the highest bidder. They can maximize this profit by dividing us and provoking us into making more and more extreme statements. “Isolated in front of our devices, we also fall more easily into ideological silos.” We must oppose this through a collective movement.

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